life in the garden of eden.

The desert encroaches on the garden. No matter. Sand will do as well as flowers.
–Mason Cooley

When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
–Richard III, William Shakespeare

For weeks and weeks the autumn world stood still,
Clothed in the shadow of a smoky haze;
The fields were dead, the wind had lost its will,
And all the lands were hushed by wood and hill,
In those grey, withered days.

–How One Winter Came in the Lake Region, Wilfred Campbell

The photo of the far shore at Lake Natoma [...]